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 9 th 8. 1. JAN. 22, '98.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

^ ould in itself make a volume of no mean i nportance.

I will enumerate a few of England s > 3ulptors of more recent date, Commencing

dth Nicholas Stone, an English sculptor, Lorn 1586, died 1647. Vertue met with ] is pocket-book, in which he kept an
 * ccount of the statues and tombs he exe-

uted. The following are a few of the many c xcellent works of this ingenious artist : a 1 omb for the Earl of Ormond set up at Kil- kenny in Ireland, a superb tomb for Lord

Northampton in Dover Castle, another for the Earl of Bedford, a monument for Spenser the poet in Westminster Abbey, and a number of other fine works. Francis Bird, born 1667, died 1721. One of his first works was the monument of Dr. Busby in West- minster Abbey; he made the monument to Queen Anne in front of St. Paul's Cathe- dral, also a magnificent monument in Fulham Church for the Lord Viscount Mordaunt, and one to the Duke of Newcastle in Westminster Abbey. Edward Pierce did excellent work, died about 1698. Joseph Wilton produced a number of very graceful figures for monu- mental work ; a very refined monument by this sculptor is in Glasgow Cathedral. Thomas Banks, born 1735. The monument erected to the memory of the daughter of Sir Brooke Boothby in Ashbourne Church, Derbyshire, is a work of art, for simplicity and "beauty, that will live for all time. Joseph Nollekens, born 11 August, 1737. Numbers of the monuments by this sculptor, such as that to the memory of Manners, Baynes, and Blair, three officers who fell in Rodney's great battle, are excellent speci- mens of the style of monument produced about this period. Tom Carter, a sculptor who executed the clever bas-relief on Townshend's monument in Westminster Abbey. John Bacon, born 1744. Westminster Abbey is rich with this sculptor's work, the Earl of Chatham being one of his finest pro- ductions. The celebrated John Flaxman, born 1756. His monumental work, for sym- pathy and true religious feeling, is equal to work executed at any period. The simple bas-relief carved on Collins's monument in Chichester Cathedral, the beautiful monu- ment to Miss Cromwell, also the magni- ficent monument in Westminster Abbey to Lord Mansfield, as well as that to Lord Nelson in St. Paul's Cathedral, and numbers of others that are to be found in the different cathedrals and churches of England, are works of which England is proud. Sir Richard Westmacott executed several recum- bent figures for monumental work which are

full of deep religious feeling. Sir Francis Chantrey's beautiful group of the ' Sleeping Children' in Lichfield Cathedral, and the one of ' Resignation ' in Worcester Cathedral, and numbers of other monumental works through- out the country, are so well known they need no comment. Rossi, Manning, H. Baily Thomas Campbell, S. Joseph, W. C. Marshall, M. Noble, H. Weekes, Thomas Woolner, and ma,ny other celebrated English sculptors have done beautiful monumental work. The late Alfred Stevens's beautiful monument erected to the memory of the Duke of Wellington in St. Paul's Cathedral is one of the finest monumental works of the nineteenth cen- tury ; a fine illustration of this monument is to be found in the life of Alfred Stevens by Hugh Stannus. I know of no book being published that has done justice to the monu- mental work of English sculptors ; but engravings were made from most of their works about the time of their erection. I have collected a number of engravings, some being fine examples of the engraver's art, such as the one by Sharp from Capt. Hardinge's monument in St. Paul's Cathedral by the sculptor Manning. The best way to obtain a good representative monumental collection of English sculptors is to search amongst old engravings published about the time of the erection of the various monuments. In many cases interesting engravings can be obtained when families have had their ancestors' monuments engraved. Some of the finest monuments in England have been executed by sculptors wholiave come over to this country, viz., Cavalini, Torel, Torri- giano, Roubiliac, Rysbrack, Scheemakers, and others. Some of the above-named foreign sculptors became naturalized.

CHARLES GREEN.

SKYE" (9 th S. i. 6). Would my critic be reasonable enough to reveal his name, if he be a person of authority ; or, at least, to say how long Skye has been called by its natives " the island of wings," and give

proofs ?

J. LOGIE ROBERTSON, Editor of ' The Oxford Scott.'

JOHNSTONE OF WAMPHRAY (8 th S. XI. 508 ;

xii. 296, 364, 430, 470 ; 9 th S. i. 11). SIR HER- BERT MAXWELL'S assurance that he did not intend disrespect to myself is, of course, accepted in the spirit in which it is expressed. I find it difficult, however, to distinguish between being insulted for my expressed ideas, opinions, or statements, and at the same time not being personally so. As to his " vigorous remonstrance against my version of Border history," I am pot aware that J